Vergil's OneShots (DMC Fanfiction)

Stalker

A/N: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

[Stalker]

"I'm sorry for being late! Practice ended later than I expected today. I hope you haven't been waiting for too long." My lovely girlfriend came rushing out of her club room to find me standing there, having waited patiently for the past 15 minutes.

"It wasn't long." I replied, the smile automatically appearing on my face.

Joanna Sparda and I had been dating for the past three months, but it still didn't feel real to me at all. Up till today, I still wasn't sure what it was that Joanna saw in me at all. I was just your average college student, struggling along with everyone else to stay awake in classes, struggling to get reports done by the deadline, and playing around whenever I had the free time to do so. I wasn't particularly a socialite –I mean, I have my own circle of friends and some of them were socialites, but I didn't always hang out with them.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, was pretty, smart, capable, friendly and sporty. When we were both in our first years in college, everyone around me had been attracted to Joanna. Many guys crowded around her, but I heard from my female friends in my classes that no one particularly hated her –quite unlike how popular girls were usually hated by others or something. Joanna was someone who was unreachable to me, and I was just another guy who admired her from afar: having a silent crush but never expecting that a perfect girl like her would ever turn her attention to someone like me.

Our fates crossed path when we happened to take an elective course together. By pure coincidence we happened to be late for the first class and were sent to stand outside the classroom as punishment. We had made awkward, embarrassed talk and when we were finally allowed back into the classroom, I realised that the rest of the class had already found their partners for pair work that would be the basis of grading for the rest of the semester. Thus, I had to dredge up my courage to ask Joanna to be my partner, at which she had heartily agreed because we were the only ones without partners.

I guess we got closer while working on our assignments together, and we had many meals together after meeting up to discuss about schoolwork. At first it had been heart-pounding sessions for me, but over time I began to get more and more comfortable with the seemingly perfect girl, who was steadily becoming more of a girl-next-door to me. She had the comfortable humour, the little embarrassment over some things that made me want to tease her at times. Her blush was unbelievably cute, and she always had a thing or two to complain about her eccentric uncle at home.

Then, one fateful –and joyful –day, Joanna actually confessed to me on the way to our usual dinner spot. I remember being completely speechless for a good half minute, unconsciously making Joanna super embarrassed and overthink things. Of course, I somehow stammered my feelings back to her, and on that day, we had the best meal of my life. My feet couldn't touch the ground for the whole week after that.

Fast forward to now, it had already been three months, but my Joanna was still as sweet and cute as the day I met her.

"Let's go." Joanna declared happily, her smile drawing the picture of a flower in full bloom. "I can't wait to have some sweets after a workout!"

"Actually I have been thinking of joining the basketball team here." I confessed as we started on our way to the dessert shop where I had already made an appointment. "Because of your sweet tooth, I'm always having sweets and I think I'm gaining extra weight. You have your Iaido and Aikido trainings to work off the calories, but I'm only exercising by taking morning runs. It's not enough."

"You want to play basketball again?" Joanna's eyes widened, the shine bright in her impossibly navy blue eyes.

"Yeah."